The Barter Boom (C J Dennis Poems)
Now, since man became a martyr To this economic stress,He has sought relief, in barter, From financial wretchedness;So, dispensing with ...
Stress Poems (209 Poems)
In Memoriam Matris (Arthur Patchett Martin Poems)
IN my hot youth I rashly pennedA Sonnet of the After-life.It was the time of stress and strifeThrough which the ...
William Henry Groom Vale’ (George Essex Evans Poems)
NOW is there rest for heart and brainNo mandate calls to him again.The lips that voiced the People's willAre powerless ...
Old Town Types No.1 – The Old Town (C J Dennis Poems)
Fierce on the wheat-sown Mallee plain The ruthless summer suns burned down,And dust-storms, heralding the rain,Swept thro' the street and ...
The Three Trees (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
The oak is a brave tree that groweth in the wood- The oak, and the pine, and the aspen tree- ...
Dreams (Emma Lazarus Poems)
A DREAM of lilies: all the blooming earth,A garden full of fairies and of flowers;Its only music the glad cry ...
The Choice (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
This Consul Casement-he who heard the cry Of stricken people-and who in his fight To lift the torture load from ...
The Average Man (George Essex Evans Poems)
His hat looks worn, and his coat-sleeves shine,As I see him step from his 'bus at nine;His boots are pieced ...
Sapientia Lunae (Ernest Christopher Dowson Poems)
The wisdom of the world said unto me: "_Go forth and run, the race is to the brave; Perchance ...
As The Ways Descend (Dame Mary Gilmore DBE Poems)
I thought of a thousand things as I sat in the placeWhere of old we sat ere time had wrinkled ...
Poetry (Arthur Davison Ficke Poems)
I It is a little isle amid bleak seas-An isolate realm of garden, circled roundBy importunity of stress and ...
Fishing Nooks (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Men will grow weary, said the Lord,"Of working for their bed and board.They'll weary of the money chaseAnd want to ...
The Common Joys (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
THESE joys are free to all who liveThe rich and poor, the great and low: The charms which kindness has ...
The Return of the Year (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Again the warm bare earth, the noonThat hangs upon her healing scars,The midnight round, the great red moon,The mother with ...
Safe Conduct (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
There isn't any danger in the kindly things you say,There isn't any sorrow in the fine and manly deed,No deep ...
Eternal Friendship (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Who once has had a friend has foundThe link 'twixt mortal and divine; Though now he sleeps in hallowed ground,He ...
Lorne (C J Dennis Poems)
Where the road's white bracelet runs Round the cliff 'twixt bush and sea,Gleaming 'neath the summer's suns There she rests ...
Guess (Eugene Field Poems)
There is a certain Yankee phrase I always have revered,Yet, somehow, in these modern days, It's almost disappeared;It was the ...
Ballade Of Dead Republics (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Tell me ye King-craft of to-day Where is Athens, who made men free; Then sank into stupor by the way, ...
The Old-Time Family (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
It makes me smile to hear 'em tell each other nowadaysThe burdens they are bearing, with a child or two ...
Victoria (George Essex Evans Poems)
White Star of Womanhood, whose rays Thro' years of peace and years of stressShed wide o'er all thy people's ...
The Heritage Of Ease (C J Dennis Poems)
Are we so flabby, and are we so soft?I have pondered the question long and oft; And happy-go-lucky we may ...
Start where you stand (Berton Braley Poems)
Start where you stand and never mind the past,The past won't help you in beginning new,If you have left it ...
Villanelle Of Acheron (Ernest Christopher Dowson Poems)
By the pale marge of Acheron, Me thinks we shall pass restfully, Beyond the scope of any sun. There ...
Chorus Of Furies (Basil Bunting Poems)
Guarda mi disse, le feroce ErineLet us come upon him first as if in a dream, anonymous triple presence, memory ...
Kore (Frederic Manning Poems)
Yea, she hath passed hereby, and blessed the sheaves, And the great garths, and stacks, and quiet farms,And all the ...
Lines To My Father (Countee Cullen Poems)
The many sow, but only the chosen reap; Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, That with the cool ...
The Long View (Fay Inchfawn Poems)
Some day of days! Some dawning yet to beI shall be clothed with immortality!And, in that day, I shall ...
The Two Masks (George Meredith Poems)
Melpomene among her livid people,Ere stroke of lyre, upon Thaleia looks,Warned by old contests that one museful rippleAlong those lips ...
An Old Lesson From The Fields (Archibald Lampman Poems)
Even as I watched the daylight how it spedFrom noon till eve, and saw the light wind passIn long pale ...